HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Prolexic, the global leader in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that it is now providing DDoS detection and DDoS protection to PayPro Global, a leading Canadian software distribution service.

Headquartered in Toronto, PayPro Global hosts an e-Commerce infrastructure for software developers worldwide. Last November, the secure HTTPS payment transaction servers supporting www.payproglobal.com were taken offline for hours as a result of a Layer 7 distributed denial of service DDoS attack. During that time, PayPro Global's worldwide customer base of software developers could not generate revenue. This followed a previous DDoS attack launched against the site in the third quarter.

"The DDoS attacks against PayPro Global are proof that practically anyone can launch a DDoS attack these days," said Stuart Scholly, president at Prolexic. "As a Prolexic customer, PayPro Global is now fully protected against all types and sizes of distributed denial of service attacks, whether from an individual or a well-organized group of cybercriminals with significant botnet resources."

"After exploring and testing numerous options on the market we chose Prolexic as its DDoS protection system showed the best results in repelling cyber-attacks," said Matthew Silverman, CEO of PayPro Global. "We are confident that through the partnership with Prolexic, downtime will become ancient history for our company."

"We have been attacked several times since bringing Prolexic on board, but our site never went down," said Valeriu Braghis, marketing manager at PayPro Global. "Prolexic was successful against every DDoS attack. It is important for us to give our customers the confidence that they are no longer at risk of revenue loss due to a DDoS attack and Prolexic does that."

Founded in 2006, PayPro Global, Inc. develops and hosts an e-commerce solution that allows anyone to easily sell software online. PayPro Global supports more than one hundred currencies, all major credit and debit cards, and a wide variety of payment options. The company also offers software developers state-of-the-art licensing, activation, and anti-piracy protection for their applications.

PayPro Global is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with development center in Ramat Gan, Israel and regional offices in New York, USA, and London, UK.

Prolexic is the world's largest, most trusted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation provider. Able to absorb the largest and most complex attacks ever launched, Prolexic restores mission-critical Internet-facing infrastructures for global enterprises and government agencies within minutes. Ten of the world's largest banks and the leading companies in e-commerce, SaaS, payment processing, travel/hospitality, gaming and other at-risk industries rely on Prolexic to protect their businesses. Founded in 2003 as the world's first in-the-cloud DDoS mitigation platform, Prolexic is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida and has scrubbing centers located in the Americas, Europe and Asia. To learn more about how Prolexic can stop DDoS attacks and protect your business, please visit www.prolexic.com, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ , YouTube , and @Prolexic on Twitter.

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